FAEA F2 Penguin getting 1.5Ghz MT6589T processor upgrade

AndiJune 24, 2013

Great news if you’re waiting for the 1080FAEAF2 Penguin! The official news is that the phone will be updated to the a Turbo 1.5Ghz MT6589T chipset!

Even without the updatedprocessor the FAEAF2 Penguin looked like an amazing phone due to the highend features which include a 5-inch FHD 1920 x 1080 display, 2GB RAM, 13 mega-pixel rear camera, 5 mega-pixel front, 32GB memory, and NFC, but now it’s an absolute stunner!

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FAEA have also confirmed that along with the 1.5Ghz MT6589T Turbo processor the rear camera will get am F/2.2 aperture, 3000mAh battery and Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean OS. Sources close to FAEA suggest a July 10th launch date has been scheduled with pricing of the F2 Penguin being set at just 1299 Yuan ($211)!.

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- vlastimil
  June 24, 2013
  My too if it has minimal. One of the micro Sd/ or corning gorilla… And the price will be max. 300 USD
  - Doomer
    June 24, 2013
    Like we all dont use a screen protector. And i dont even fill 16gb of data. International price will be much lesser than 300$ im sure. NFC is just so funny to use 😛

vlastimil
June 24, 2013
Wow but for people from Europe like me?? Price will be about 275 USD… And what about corning gorrila glass or micro Sd reader? Thx for this Post
Bernard
June 24, 2013
Airyl
June 24, 2013
Waiting for Anexonel’s review of the F1. From Boots Wong’s video, I can deduce that the display on this is better than the one one the C2, and it has really nice thin bezels too. If Anexonel says that the F1 has good build quality and speed, then I won’t need to think about it anymore.

SYHMS
June 24, 2013
Hmm, would it have Gorilla Glass?
AdrianoARG
June 24, 2013
I already preordered it from aliexpress, 290$US :D, just waiting for the launch!!!
- airyl
  June 24, 2013
  You should have pre ordered it from Faea’s own website. It’s only 239$ there. Also according to their website, units are going to be dispatched as soon as 1 July. Give us some review once toy get it!
  - K V Paul
    June 24, 2013
    Done a WHOIS search for http://www.faeamobile.com and found registered by vihao.ltd, seems not the official site
  - June 24, 2013
    The website seems to be brand new 😛 no-one on forum and specifications for F2 are wrong :/ (Snapdragon CPU ?)
  - AdrianoARG
    June 24, 2013
    Oops, i didnt know that website!!! 😛 . Anyway i preordered about more than a 1 week ago. And it says “From $239.99” , so i think the mt6589t 32gb 2gb 3000mah otg nfc mhl (the full version!) will be more expensive.
    - Airyl
      June 24, 2013
      - AdrianoARG
        June 25, 2013
        Maybe is an official international website, but they need to update the phone specifications. Better wait until the launch day and we’ll see.
      - Demetrio
        June 25, 2013
- faea lover
  August 6, 2013

Sergio
June 24, 2013
If they actulally gonna sell it as Andi wrote (5″ FHD, 2GB RAM, MTK6589T,13M/5M, 3000mAh, OTG), if $211 (actually, anything below $230 is just fine for 2GB phone) will be the “international” price on their site (+$10 for registered mail), if they won’t postpone release date by half a year (like some other companies we know), if buttons will work as they should (not like some other phones we know), if GPS will work properly without folium-soldering-hacks (not like some other …), if they put (or not, but it would be great 🙂 ) second battery, protector film and bumper in the package …
Then tell me, who’s gonna wait Neo N003? Seriously?
K V Paul
June 24, 2013
Done a WHOIS search for http://www.faeamobile.com and found registered by vihao.ltd, seems not the official site
- Demetrio
  June 24, 2013
anony
June 24, 2013
- Sergio
  June 24, 2013
  What’s the catch?
  Here’s an example: http://goo.gl/tSMWI
  5.0″ 1920×1080, MTK6589, 1GB RAM, 8GB ROM, 5M/13M, 2x2500mAh for $172.99. Looks incredible? Ok, that 2500mAh is probably closer to ~1950mAh (as we saw many times on YouTube low-end MTK phone reviews), glass is not Gorilla, no OTG. But when checking in google, you will find the phone with exactly the same name, but with lower specs, 720p and much older (45nm) MTK6577.
  It’s probably nothing, but… Strange, isn’t?
  - Airyl
    June 24, 2013
    That’s a cheap, unoriginal, badly QCed clone. We’re talking about a larger Chinese brand with it’s own designs and technology here. Those kinds of things don’t really happen with these brands.
    - Sergio
      June 25, 2013
      My point was, even with famous chinese online shop, sometimes you might get suspicious, that either they send the phone with some other specs, or even they actually send it, the phone will be stopped on EU border as pretty obvious contrafact (despite CE, FCC logos on the back or under the batteries).
      That’s why you should wait for user (besides seller) review in YouTube, and read forums for positive feedbacks, before making decision.
      Of course, there is a good thing with cheap “copies” – you can use original accessories from local store.
shi
June 24, 2013